O2640City Council Meeting: June 23, 2020 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2640 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 4.65.030 TO PROVIDE A
TEMPORARY EXEMPTION FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE AND BILLING
SERVICES
WHEREAS, on March 8, 2005 the City Council of the City of Santa Monica
adopted Ordinance No. 2152 (the “Living Wage Ordinance”) to require that persons
working on City contracts over a threshold amount receive a living wage; and
WHEREAS, the findings approved as part of that ordinance established that its
purposes include ensuring that those workers have sufficient income to pay the high
costs of living in the City, region, and state, to cover health care, and to have the leisure
to participate in civic life; and
WHEREAS, the Living Wage Ordinance is broadly applicable to all City contracts
in the amount of $54,200 or more; and
WHEREAS, recent experience has demonstrated that in some circumstances
strict adherence to the requirements of the Living Wage Ordinance is detrimental to the
City's welfare and does not serve the ordinance's purposes; and
WHEREAS, providing emergency ambulance transport services is of vital
importance to the City; and
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WHEREAS, providers of emergency ambulance transport services do not control
rates for the services they provide and thus cannot currently comply with the City's
Living Wage Ordinance; and
WHEREAS, on July 11, 2017, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 2548,
which amended Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4.65.030 to provide for a
temporary exemption to the Living Wage Ordinance for emergency ambulance and
billing services until June 30, 2020; and
WHEREAS, taking into account two potential one-year extensions, the City’s
current contract with the current provider of emergency ambulance transport services
will terminate on January 31, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to amend Santa Monica Municipal Code Section
4.65.030 to extend the temporary exemption to the Living Wage Ordinance for
emergency ambulance and billing services until January 31, 2023.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 4.65.030 of the Santa Monica Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
4.65.030 Exemption.
The requirements of this Chapter shall not apply to employers that are
government agencies, City grantees, nonprofit corporations, corporations providing
banking services, or entities providing emergency ambulance and billing services. The
exemption set forth in this Section for entities providing emergency ambulance and
billing services shall sunset on January 31, 2023.
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SECTION 2. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or appendices
thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such
inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion
of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage
of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in the
official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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GEORGE S. CARDONA
Interim City Attorney
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Approved and adopted this 23rd day of June, 2020.
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Kevin McKeown, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2640 (CCS) had its introduction
on June 9, 2020 and was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held
on June 23, 2020, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers Davis, Morena, Himmelrich, Winterer, Jara,
Mayor Pro Tem O’Day, Mayor McKeown
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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Denise Anderson-Warren, City Clerk Date
A summary of Ordinance No. 2640 (CCS) was duly published pursuant to
California Government Code Section 40806.
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